Biden admin: train company will “fully pay” cleanup costs

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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After a train derailment in Ohio spilled toxic chemicals, railway company Norfolk Southern vows to help but critics note how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. Also, a coast to coast winter storm is hitting the United States with ice and snow and conditions not seen in spots in 30 years. Plus, one year into the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials believe Russia is looking to ally with China for military supplies. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit that Ohio train derailment site one
0:08.2	day after Donald Trump.
0:10.6	The lead starts right now.
0:14.1	Big names descend on a small town.
0:16.5	East Palestine, Ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck, the train's operator Norfolk
0:20.9	Southern vows to help at critics note how much the company is giving victims versus
0:25.6	company investors for stock buybacks.
0:28.5	Plus, after the speeches and fanfare, Ukraine left with the realities of war.
0:34.8	Do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage?
0:44.5	CNN's Clarissa Ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning
0:48.6	bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers to their families as Russia's brutal invasion
0:53.5	near one year and a coast to coast winter storm ice and snow and conditions not seen
1:00.1	in some spots in 30 years.
1:07.6	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start today in East Palestine, Ohio where
1:11.7	the fallout from that toxic train wreck almost three weeks ago continues to get messier
1:16.4	by the hour and I don't just mean the cleanup which is underway right now and involves
1:21.4	testing water, air and soil for dangerous chemicals.
1:25.3	The Biden administration is now promising to make Norfolk Southern the train operator
1:30.2	pay for every cent of the cleanup process and possibly even more.
1:35.1	But this small town near the Ohio Pennsylvania border has also become a focal point of the
1:39.1	political universe.
1:41.4	Today former president Donald Trump visited East Palestine blasting the Biden administration
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